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Sending best wishes.
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What a girl!I asked her if she wanted to go potty and for the first time in days she was able to get on her feet all by herself. When she came back inside she JOGGED in! -
All paws crossed here for Mrs. T.
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Sending gentle hugs to you and your girl. I hope the Deramaxx lets her (and you) rest tonight.
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Somewhere deep in the archives of Greytalk is the story if her eating the silicone funnel off of my breastpump and requiring major surgery 6 weeks later when she blocked. sigh probably also the one of her eating 2.5 LBS of chocolate
Life must just be one culinary adventure after another with Chase. I hope everything is okay this time, too.What were the skewers made out of?
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The pictures of her running are simply wonderful.
In humans, natural healing after a stroke seems to occur for at least six months afterward. (And beyond, with therapy.) I hope Gracie continues to make even more greyt strides.
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Love, meatloaf, sunshine, and painkillers. A greyt combination. I hope every day sees him better.
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Good thoughts from here, too.
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Sending best wishes.
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I am so sorry for you and Soldi on the loss of your wonderful Ivy.
May I ask how you are acting around Soldi? If she hears, "Poor, poor baby" from you in a sorrowful voice, this may make her feel even more sad. If you always act like she is the best, happiest, luckiest dog in the world: "Come, Soldi baby! It's your favorite -- time for the beach!," talking to her in a very excited, happy tone, it may help a little over time. Of course it is not a magic cure for grief.
Eating. Diane Burpdog taught me that under certain circumstances, just give them what they will eat and don't try to push anything else, until they're eating more regularly. What has gotten several animals of mine to eat was lightly cooked beef or chicken.
Sending happy, upbeat cyberhugs to Soldi and gentle ones to you.
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Sending a bunch of bright, hopeful wishes.
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If your dogs ever do manage to get a turkey neck down their trachea, you could publish one heck of an article. It would kind of be like the George Carlin routine about the kid who snorted an entire cheese sandwich out his nose -- "It's a miracle!"Can you tell it's been a while since I've done an endotracheal intubation?
Hoping Minerva's continuing to do well.
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Sending good thoughts.
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Sending best wishes.
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I think her incision looks very tidy -- maybe the 33 cents was for double-knotting the stitches?
But, um, food doesn't go down the trachea (windpipe) -- unless they're aspirating. Trachea is the ringed tube in the front of the neck going down to lungs. Esophagus is just posterior to the trachea, going down to the stomach. There are various procedures the body performs automatically during a normal swallow to prevent food from going down the trachea. Sometimes surgery in this area may create problems swallowing depending on what muscles get moved around/cut, but fortunately it doesn't sound like this is a problem for your girl.I chopped up her usual raw food to make eating easier for her; the vet informed us they'd never seen a trachea as big as hers, which makes me wonder how much larger Coco's must be given that he's swallowed whole tom turkey necks.
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I am so sorry.
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Adding to the wishes for a good surgery result and easy recovery.
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My Scout was on pentoxifylline for about 3 years for vasculitis, one of his collection of auto-immune-related diseases, including SLO. He didn't show any noxious side effects. I'm sorry that I don't have the source of this excerpt that I copied some years ago:
Pentoxifylline and Ischemic DermatopathiesPentoxifylline (PTX) is from the group of drugs called methylxanthines. PTX is derived from theobromine. Pentoxifylline and other methylxanthines produce anti-inflammatory effects. PTX also improves blood flow through narrowed arteries because of the rheological property in which it allows red blood cells to change shape. It is not known if the improvement in patients with ischemic dermatoses are caused by improved blood flow (rheological effect) or via the antiinflammatory mechanisms.
PTX was first used in veterinary dermatology for familial canine dermatomyositis and contact allergy. More recently, it has been put forth as a treatment for atopic dermatitis and erythema multiforme.
In a clinical report in which PTX was used successfully to treat atopic dermatitis in dogs, the dose used was 10 mg/kg q12h, orally, although there was still some pruritus at 28 days of treatment. However, the results of pharmacokinetic studies showed that the half-life in dogs is short, <30 minutes, with only 30% oral absorption. Therefore, it is possible that improved efficacy might be possible if administered more frequently: Some veterinarians now give PTX to dogs at doses as high as 20-30 mg/kg q8h, orally.
PTX is available in a 400 mg tablet. Some veterinarians use dosing regimens that allow the use of a full tablet for a large-size dog. When tablets are broken or crushed for cats (e.g., 100 mg per cat) the taste is very unpleasant. Other side effects in dogs and cats include vomiting, nausea, excitement, and 'nervousness.' The author has not seen as much problem with vomiting as initially reported, perhaps due to insistence on giving the drug with food. The author has been 2 dogs which developed erythema multiforme (confirmed on histopathology) due to pentoxifylline.
The efficacy of PTX at UC-Davis has varied. It appears to have worked well in many cases of familial canine dermatomyositis (FCD), reasonably well in some cases of non-FCD ischemic dermatitis, and rather variably in vasculitis, EM, or atopic dermatitis.
Life must just be one culinary adventure after another with Chase. I hope everything is okay this time, too.
Hoping Minerva's continuing to do well.
Is There A Traveling Acupuncturist In Central Nc?
in Health and Medical discussion
Posted · Edited by EllenEveBaz
We have used the accupuncture vet in High Point -- probably the same one as Saharasmom. You can contact the vet through Greensboro Veterinary Hospital on High Point Road, or directly at her number in High Point (the one in the directory that Macoduck listed). Vet's name is Katharine DeVore. House calls were helpful first for Baz and then for Scout. Sending good wishes for Cougar.